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CAPS Grade 5: Intermediate Phase History - Term 1
… 1 700 years ago. Hunter-gatherers were not marginalised or out-competed, but shared the southern African farming … should not include detail on modern San in…
ArticleTutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
… of people (both children and adults) were either maimed or fatally wounded during the disturbances. Some forms of … Town (known as the Truth and…
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… on formerly indentured Indians who failed to reindenture or return to India after completing their contracts. 1912 … (persons deemed undesirable on economic…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… of tenant and sub-tenant families were made up of one or two persons. This peculiarity in the suburb that was over … subject of political contestations in…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… labour was kept subservient through legislation and force, or the threat of such. Areas of African (Xhosa) occupation on … an independent livelihood, either…
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983
… not have a problem with the concept of racial segregation or laws like the Group Areas Act that forced different race … tabled a report suggesting the…
ArticleDutch East India Company (DEIC)/VOC
… to the Anglophone world as the Dutch East India Company or simply the VOC. The executive directorate of the VOC was called the Heeren Sewentien or the "Lords…
ArticleAmericas by the 1500s
… had financed John Cabot's explorations to America in 1497 or from what Native Americans called modern Nicaragua ie. … is generally referred to as the…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… the Ndebele as either the Mapog, Mapogga, Mapoers, Mapoch or M'pogga. Although most Ndebele today find this form of … began to take place between these new…
ArticleEvents leading to the Bambatha Rebellion
… in South Africa, I n order to increase the Negro's wants or to teach him the value of labour a hut tax have been … enter mines hundreds of feet deep in order…
ArticleClassroom: Educational sites for learners and educators
… club! This is a great resource to use when teaching or learning about heritage, identity and oral history. The … look at the other sections as well. Use the…
ArticleMarxism-Leninism
… by private individuals (as it is with capitalism) or by the proletariat (as it is with communism), but by the … would be in the hands of the proletariat (the…
America, Spanish conquest
… interior. Activity: Write these events on the board or projector, but in the WRONG order. The students should try … with the countries in the East. The Arabs…
ArticleLetters: Albertina Sisulu
… they (would) keep you people in Pretoria for about one or two months, and that would have enabled us to see you … tormented inmates and their families by…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… Xhosa community The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Xhosa people South African citizenship … Ntlangwini, Ngqika, Mfengu (also…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… that arrests would be made”, it noted, “Swart was more or less under an obligation to redeem his pledge”.4 Later, … to the subtle change in name from the…
Afrikaner
… French who settled in the Cape were committed Calvinists or Reformed Protestants. Anyone who accepted the Christian … the Afrikaner's existence and fill a…
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
… the same historical landscape. They may even have met, or at least have known about the other. But they were … collaboration with commercial manufacturers,…
ArticleStalinism and how Stalin used his power to change Marxism-Leninism
… control of the country until his death. Propaganda: False or exaggerated statements aimed at persuading people to … to death. About 35 000 soldiers were…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… record the reason for the proposal at that precise time, or the views of Executive Committee members in the debate. … certainly with little direct connection…
The Arrival of the Khoisan
… They called themselves Khoikhoi, which means "men of men" or "the real people". Groups used name like this to show … of bent poles covered with reed mats…
ArticleAreas indentured Indians came from
… taluk ( which often has the same name as the town/village or district) (Column 2), the district proper (Column 3) and … the table below a clear indication is…
ArticleThe formation of the SANNC/ANC
… jobs. The prohibition of rural land ownership by Blacks, or occupation outside the reserves dispossessed many landowners and leasing or tenant-farming…
Liberation organisations
… service in the SADF when they completed their school or tertiary education. This was referred to as "National … faced imprisonment, went AWOL (Absent without…
From Segregation to Apartheid
… Evictions were carried out by farmers themselves or by officials of the Bantu Administration. "We then heard … quite agreeable to this but said that our…
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… of many gangs. In particular, the numerous youth gangs or tsotsis reflected the instability of the urban African … work experience, and many of them were not…
ArticleSona Patterns - Revisiting the Contributions of the People in Sub-Saharan Africa to Modern Mathematics
… to the sidelines. However, the Sub-Saharan sona patterns, or sand graphs, which forms part of modern knot theory, is … .’ [5] They can be in the form of…
ArticleBecoming human in southern Africa
… 000 years. As a matter of fact, the Cradle of Humankind, or what is believed to be the birthplace of humans, is close … by their own name, Khoikhoi, which…
The Atlantic slave trade
… seaports. Africans were not strangers to the slave trade, or to the keeping of slaves. There had been considerable … known as the Kongo. Kongo was ruled by a…
The turn to armed struggle
… to attack human targets rather than government buildings or installations. The state’s successes against Poqo, … to end Apartheid. The NCL resolved to avoid…